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Netflix Inc. will close its Bloomfield DVD distribution center on Wednesday amid dwindling demand for mail-order movies as more and more entertainment is streamed online. The company cited the U.S. Postal Service changes and company efficiencies in a statement about the closure Monday. "Netflix has closed the Bloomfield DVD distribution center due mainly to United States Postal Service transportation and service changes, along with increased internal production efficiencies, resulting [in] a small number of jobs lost," company spokesman Joris Evers told The Courant in a prepared statement. He would not specify how the postal service is hurting business. The company will...

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Netflix Inc. will close its Bloomfield DVD distribution center on Wednesday amid dwindling demand for mail-order movies as more and more entertainment is streamed online.
The company cited the U.S. Postal Service changes and company efficiencies in a...

Only eight years ago, Democratic legislators were patting themselves on the backs for enacting the strongest campaign finance laws in the country — reforms that created a firewall between lobbyists, state contractors and state politicians and siphoned...

At William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance, employee cubicles are rapidly being replaced by shared workspaces. Computers of all sorts — laptops and tablets — are being added, and digital networks are being ramped up for speed and volume.
For...

Online retail sales are growing. Companies from Connecticut can sell all over the country and retailers in other states can sell in Connecticut without the cost of a storefront or a sales force. It is a very profitable marketplace offering choice and...

SOUTHINGTON — Many middle-aged executives-turned-entrepreneurs start working for themselves because they were downsized, or thought they might be laid off soon.
By contrast, Carlos Lara, 57, bought a business with a brother so that so that his wife could...

Last year, 18 executives at 11 Connecticut hospitals were compensated more than $1 million, according to a database released annually by the state Office of Health Care Access.Hartford Hospital and Yale-New Haven Hospital each had four executives whose...

With the Christmas shopping season off to a rousing start, state officials are hoping this will be the best season in years for sales taxes pouring into state coffers.
The gifts being purchased at a brisk pace at malls and retail outlets from Danbury...

The battle lines have been drawn over whether the state should legalize online gaming but debate over the contentious issue may have to wait for another day.Rep. Steve Dargan, co-chair of the legislature's public safety and security committee,...

A Rhode Island lawmaker has forwarded a 10-page report regarding the Institute for International Sport to the state police, saying that many of his questions have still not been answered. The report was issued by acting Rhode Island state auditor...

BET ON WORKERS
We must focus our efforts on the hundreds of small companies based in our state and especially manufacturing firms.
I propose an incentive for hires in the high-tech and manufacturing sectors to build the work force for the future....

Dimly-lit and often unreachable by phone or Internet, retailers without power have hooked up portable generators and opened their doors to customers this week in the aftermath of Saturday's Nor'easter.
"It's good they're open," said Hazel...

The following is an abridged version of a discussion on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/edpagecourant.Ed Page: President Obama made the remark "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Was his quote...

Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation to allow military voters to cast ballots over the Internet. The intention of this legislation is well-meaning — Connecticut does need to improve the voting process for military voters — but Internet voting...

A number of people who have past affiliations with the embattled Institute for International Sport say they're concerned that their signatures were among those kept on file by the institute, which has been the subject of forgery allegations.The Courant...

The Bethesda, Md., health insurer that Aetna Inc. is planning to acquire for $5.6 billion agreed to pay millions of dollars to avoid criminal prosecution.The payment by Coventry Health Care Inc. is related to the company gaining advantage over competitors...

Restaurants often post a menu in their front window to show potential diners what's cooking in their kitchen. In Hartford, a city ordinance now requires them to show how clean and orderly they keep that kitchen.Check the restaurant's window next time...

Peter Schiff's campaign website has been repeatedly targeted by cyber attackers, his brother and spokesman said this afternoon. The campaign has notified the FBI.
Schiff, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, had planned a "moneybomb'' -- a...

So, who is this Roadside Strangler? Or, as U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny might be asking, how did he hijack my confirmation hearing?
When Chatigny, nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, faced his...

In the city's latest in a string of national distinctions, Hartford has been named America's most studied region.
From wage studies to political opinion surveys to test markets for cereal, Hartford fits the bill, it seems.
The report, released...

After years of airline mergers that have dramatically reduced choices for travelers, the U.S. Justice Department has sued to halt what would be the largest airline marriage in U.S. history.
The Justice Department joined six states and the District of...